My high school voice teacher once chose a particularly challenging piece for me to sing in competition. Bernstein’s I Hate Music is a series of five songs sung from the perspective of a child who hates music but loves to […]
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I was on Instagram. Again. Killing time before I had to leave for work, I absentmindedly scrolled through a myriad of pictures and advertisements. The pictures were lovely, sure. But they weren’t adding anything to my day. And the advertisements […]
There are two words I have never heard anyone use to describe me: silent and still. My kids might tell you I cry out for silence and stillness all day, every day. But silence and stillness are disciplines that I […]
Recently I butted heads with a dear friend. We are alike in our passion for serving Jesus but think and operate very differently. Usually we enjoy our different personalities. This was not one of those times. There were tears and frustrations […]
I am famous for picking the wrong lane at Target. If someone is couponing, price adjusting, exchanging, or just patently confused, I am guaranteed to wind up behind this person in line. Every time. One such Friday night, I […]
Raising four kids, my husband and I often find ourselves in the position of more places to be than time and space allow. On one such morning I was scheduled to sing on the worship team at church, my […]
A couple of weeks ago my friend Melissa asked to borrow a Crock-Pot for the church potluck. I was shocked that she didn’t have one. I thought every mom had a slow-cooker. Don’t they send us home from the hospital […]
I can’t say I didn’t see it coming. All the signs were there. The slow acceleration. The broken heater. The sliding that doors wouldn’t open. In its heyday our minivan was the creme de la creme of minivans and had […]
A couple of weeks ago I returned home from work to find my children happily playing with new toys at the counter. Confused, I asked my son where the little Lego set came from. My daughter waved a stuffed tiger […]
Last year I had an unexpected reunion with one of my favorite childhood friends. Back in high school Heidi and I were an inseparable, fun-loving duo known as Beast n Bones. We loved spending time together and our friendship was […]